I didn't see any slight on Liverpool in the article, but I agree with the replies that have questioned the timing of it.
Since we last won the league, we've first of all had to compete with clubs that responded more quickly to the commercialisation of football, Utd being the prime example.
Then we've had to deal with Chelsea, who were the first really financially doped team of the modern era, although prior to Abramovich, Matthew Harding spent what was a great deal of money on them. 4 years after Ambramovich we had the City takeover.
All we heard from pundits and journos was how great these teams were and how they have "raised the bar" and how the rest have to catch up. We heard very little about how they were distorting football and causing an inflationary spiral in transfer fees and wages, that other clubs had to follow in order to compete, but without the safety net of a sugar daddy.
Now Liverpool have finally started to take advantage of its rich history and international profile, we are seen as one of the bad guys causing football to be fucked?
The truth is that football has been fucked for years, and most journo's have spent decades blowing smoke up the arses of the clubs and institutions that have contributed to the state of the game, instead of asking serious questions and demanding answers.
For what it's worth, my view is that too many extremely average people, from owners, to coaches, to players, agents, broadcasters and pundits have grown fat from a diet of easy TV money. Even if the TV money stopped tomorrow, there are only limited clubs that the very top players could go to in order to maintain wages, and there would be very limited capacity within those clubs. The rest would have no option but to accept reduced wages. If the average wage went down say £5m per year to £500,000 per year, do you think that would stop kids wanting to be footballers? Or stop people wanting to coach footballers, or stop people wanting to watch footballers?
No chance. The game would carry on as it always has done, there may be a temporary drop in standard as the game recalibibrated itself, but the game, our game, would carry on.
Most of us who've bought tickets, or paid TV companies have bought into this massive con trick of repackaging football and selling it back to the fans.
All that said, the game never has been and is unlikely ever to be some egalitarian paradise. The big city well supported clubs have always had a level of dominance and attracted the best players, and money has always flowed in the direction of rich from poor.
